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William D. Lindsey

An update on the story of Bishop Robert Finn in Kansas City, who is under criminal indictment for shielding Father Shawn Ratigan, after child pornography was found on Ratigan’s computer and after Finn permitted Ratigan continued access to children: as Mark Morris reports in the Kansas City Star last Friday, prosecutors have petitioned the court for the criminal case to move forward. This is in response to a motion filed by Finn’s lawyers last month to have the charges against Finn dismissed without trial.

As these legal filings come before the court, the deposition that SNAP leader David Clohessy gave in January in response to court orders in Kansas City was made public by SNAP at the start of March, and Joshua McElwee reports on it at National Catholic Reporter, as does Nicholas Phillips at Riverfront Times (St. Louis)–both with links to the full…